Python 3 ImportError No Module named Setuptools

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I m having troubles with installing packages in Python 3  I have always installed packages with setup py install  But now  when I try to install the ansicolors package I get  importerror  quot No Module named Setuptools quot   I have no idea what to do because I didn t have setuptools installed in the past  Still  I was able to install many packages with setup py install without setuptools  Why should I get setuptools now  I can t even install setuptools because I have Python 3 3 and setuptools doesn t support Python 3  Why doesn t my install command work anymore

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EDIT  Official setuptools dox page      If you have Python 2   2 7 9 or Python 3   3 4 installed from   python org  you will already have pip and setuptools  but will need to   upgrade to the latest version       On Linux or OS X   pip install -U pip setuptools        On Windows   python -m pip install -U pip setuptools    Therefore the rest of this post is probably obsolete  e g  some links don t work    Distribute - is a setuptools fork which  offers Python 3 support   Installation instructions for distribute setuptools    pip    curl -O http   python-distribute org distribute setup py python distribute setup py easy install pip   Similar issue here    UPDATE  Distribute seems to be obsolete  i e  merged into Setuptools  Distribute is a deprecated fork of the Setuptools project  Since the Setuptools 0 7 release  Setuptools and Distribute have merged and Distribute is no longer being maintained  All ongoing effort should reference the Setuptools project and the Setuptools documentation   You may try with instructions found on setuptools pypi page  I haven t tested this  sorry        wget https   bitbucket org pypa setuptools raw bootstrap ez setup py -O -   python easy install pip

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A few years ago I inherited a python  2 7 1  project running under Django-1 2 3 and now was asked to enhance it with QR possibilities  Got the same problem and did not find pip or apt-get either  So I solved it in a totally different but easy way  I  bin vi-ed the setup py and changed the line   from setuptools import setup  into   from distutils core import setup  That did it for me  so I thought I should post this for other users running old pythons  Regards  Roger Vermeir

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For others with the same issue due to a different reason  This can also happen when there s a pyproject toml in the same directory as the setup py  even when setuptools is available  Removing pyproject toml fixed the issue for me

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The distribute package provides a Python 3-compatible version of setuptools  http   pypi python org pypi distribute  Also  use pip to install the modules  It automatically finds dependencies and installs them for you   It works just fine for me with your package       pip --version                                                               pip 1 2 1 from  usr lib python3 3 site-packages  python 3 3      sudo pip install ansicolors                                                 Downloading unpacking ansicolors   Downloading ansicolors-1 0 2 tar gz   Running setup py egg info for package ansicolors  Installing collected packages  ansicolors   Running setup py install for ansicolors  Successfully installed ansicolors Cleaning up

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Make sure you are running latest version of pip Tried to install ansible and it failed with ModuleNotFoundError  No module named  setuptools rust  python3-setuptools already in place so upgrading pip solved it  pip3 install -U pip

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The solution which worked for me was to upgrade my setuptools  python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

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I was doing this inside a virtualenv on Oracle Linux 6 4 using python-2 6 so the apt-based solutions weren t an option for me  nor were the python-2 7 ideas  My fix was to upgrade my version of setuptools that had been installed by virtualenv   pip install --upgrade setuptools   After that  I was able to install packages into the virtualenv  I know this question has already had an answer selected but I hope this answer will help others in my situation

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The PyPA recommended tool for installing and managing Python packages is pip  pip is included with Python 3 4  PEP 453   but for older versions here s how to install it  on Windows    Download https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   gt c  Python33 python exe get-pip py Downloading unpacking pip Downloading unpacking setuptools Installing collected packages  pip  setuptools Successfully installed pip setuptools Cleaning up      gt c  Python33 Scripts pip exe install pymysql Downloading unpacking pymysql Installing collected packages  pymysql Successfully installed pymysql Cleaning up

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pip uninstall setuptools  and then   pip install setuptools  This works for me and fix my issue

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Windows 7   I have given a complete solution here for python selenium webdriver  1  Setup easy install  windows - simplified      a  download ez setup py  https   bootstrap pypa io ez setup py  from  https   pypi python org pypi setuptools      b  move ez setup py to C  Python27      c  open cmd prompt     d  cd C  Python27      e  C  Python27 python exe ez setup py install

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Your setup py file needs setuptools  Some Python packages used to use distutils for distribution  but most now use setuptools  a more complete package  Here is a question about the differences between them   To install setuptools on Debian   sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools   For an older version of Python  Python 2 x    sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

[python] Python 3: ImportError "No Module named Setuptools"

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